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St. Barts may be eight square miles of arid, volcanic rock, but this small Caribbean hideaway is home to over 60 restaurants.

European shares turned in their best weekly performance since early December on Friday on optimism about a global recovery, after some positive data from the United States during the week provided evidence the economy was growing.

Children the world over are leaving carrots by the chimney for Santa's reindeer this Christmas, but the real reindeer population, and the Innu people who rely on them, need all the help they can get.

Monsanto's genetically engineered, drought resistant corn is deregulated, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday, clearing the variety for sale.

Four former National Football League players, including two Pro Bowl players, sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them facing medical problems years after their careers ended.

A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul's political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a coming race war in our big cities and of a federal-homosexual cover-up to play down the impact of AIDS.

The New York City Police Department has been targeting electronic thefts on the subway. Pickpockets are no longer stealing wallets, cash or credit cards. Now, it appears that iPhones are worth more than currency.

Best Buy has notified some online customers that it cannot complete their online orders, just three days before Christmas and already into the Hanukkah season. Some of the orders were placed in November.

Every year, the entertainment industry gifts us with its share of moments so shocking that you just have to ask yourself, WTF?!

Best Buy is hosting a midnight sale for last-minute holiday shopping, but some consumers are complaining their Black Friday orders are still unfulfilled, having been cancelled or still never shipped out just days before Christmas.

U.S. February crude jumped 90 cents to $99.57 per barrel after reaching a high of $99.87. Brent February crude rose 46 cents to $108.17 per barrel. Trading volumes were light. The oil price increase was different than a week ago when Europe concerns pushed prices below $100.

European shares rose on Thursday, helped by mostly upbeat U.S. economic data, and with banks gaining after taking advantage of cheap finance offered by the European Central Bank.

Interest in arctic oil has climbed in recent years when industry, government and third party researchers independently made realizations that the amount of recoverable world-class oil deposits was greater than previously thought. That has yet to be properly tested with a drill bit.

The fact is everyone in the financial services or wealth management business has thought about what they feel the markets will do next year. Following are the 10 market predictions for 2012 from Oliver Pursche, co-portfolio manager of GMG Defensive Beta Fund.

Japan's blue-chip index snapped a two-day winning run on Thursday and met strong resistance near its 25-day moving average, with the machine tools sector weighed down by a brokerage downgrade.

Several brokerages have lowered their profit estimates of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) after the business software maker reported lower-than-expected quarterly results.

The reasons may vary in the community, but the main reason for the delay is the A5 processor. As the processor is new and was released with iPad 2, there is no bootrom-level jailbreak for the processor. Whereas the bootrom-level exploit for A4 processor was found after the release iOS 4 in 2010.

Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on

There have been more updates from Pod2g, the famed iOS hacker, on jailbreak for A5 devices. He has reported to have resolved the cache troubles with the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak. At the same time, the final solution seems to be far.

Federal land managers said on Wednesday they have decided to scale back a disputed roundup of wild horses in Nevada next month and to postpone the planned castration of stallions as part of the operation.

The legal troubles keep mounting for the Real Housewives crew.